No conference on the documentary tradition would be complete withouta panel about the Direct Cinema movement. Only recently acknowledgedas specific to the United States instead of an offshoot of the FrenchCinema Verite movement, Direct Cinema helped define new ways ofthinking about documentary that inspired filmmakers (such as D.A.Pennebaker, one of the conference featured artists) as well asresistance to Direct Cinema claims about being able to capturereality. This call for papers seeks submissions of work from a widerange of orientations that explore the exciting moment in the historyof documentary film that produced the Direct Cinema movement - itsfilmmakers, technologies, theories, and resistances.

The Film & History League will be holding its biannual conference on"The Documentary Tradition" during November 8-12, 2006, near Dallas,TX. Full details on the location, featured speakers, registrationprocedures, and additional area topics can be found on the web siteat <http://www.filmandhistory.org>www.filmandhistory.org.

Proposals for either individual papers or complete panels (3-4papers) are welcomed, and submissions may be made in eitherelectronic or hard copy format. Please send panel proposals and/or300-word paper abstracts no later than July 30, 2006, to: